Damn that girlfriend of Yoh's. Anna really wanted that inn. She wanted to start over and the inn was her business. She just had to get it. She loved it when they first rented it. As Anna walked to the next block, she realized that there was nowhere to go for her that night. She didn't have enough money for an inn and she didn't have any friends in Tokyo besides the ones that are staying in Yoh's house. Finally, Anna decided to go to the graveyard. She had friends there (the spirits) and there was a nice old oak where she could sleep for the night. Anna walked to the graveyard and on the way; she bought some buns for dinner. It was already afternoon. The whole thing with Yoh took longer than she thought and she didn't even get the inn. Well she will. No matter what. Although Anna didn't know why she needed the inn, she knew she had to get it. She had no friends or family and the inn was the only place she could call home. She was too disgraced to call Isomer her home and even to visit the old Itako who trained her. She had broken the promise to marry Yoh. She left him after he became Shaman King and never even sent a letter to him for four years. It was like betrayal.
As Anna walked to the graveyard, she noticed that the stars already came out. It was a beautiful night and Anna climbed onto her oak tree where she spent many nights with Yoh watching the stars and ate her dinner while watching the stars alone.
Yoh was still in a daze after Anna left. Hao recovered from his laughter and was trying to apologize to Aya about laughing about her father. Aya was crying now, because of what Anna said. Anna did have that effect on people. His Anna. Well, not his anymore or maybe never was. Yoh's head was spinning with questions. Why was she back now? Why did she leave? What did she want?
Tamao had now collapsed on a couch and was still in the same dazed state as Yoh. A servant had already came out and cleaned the papers off the floor.
"Hello everybody!" yelled someone from the door. In came Horohoro and Pilica with suitcases and a smile on their faces.
"Hello Horohoro, Pilica," said Hao who had finally given up trying to apologize to Aya.
"Why are you crying Aya? And what's the matter with Tamao and Yoh?" asked Horohoro with a confused look on his face. Pilica was also confused and went over to comfort Aya, who she had been a friend of when Yoh first met her.
"What's wrong Aya? Is everything okay? What did you do Yoh Asakura?" asked Pilica, thinking that Yoh had a fight with Aya.
"What! I did nothing," said Yoh still in a daze.
"Then why is poor Aya crying here and what is wrong with you Tamao?" asked Pilica who now hurried over to Tamao.
"Oh my god, I can't believe it! Anna!" yelled Tamao who just recovered from her dazed state.
What! Anna!" yelled Pilica who had no idea what the hell was going on but nobody has mentioned Anna's name in front of Yoh for the past four years.
"What about Anna?" asked Horohoro, who was still at the door.
"She's back," said Hao who went back to comfort Aya.
"What! Anna's back? When the hell did this happen?" asked Pilica who was now stunned.
"Who is this Anna person anyways? Why do you people care so much about her? I mean from what I saw, she is nothing but a cold hearted person with an attitude," said Aya from the corner of the room, still with tears in her eyes.
Nobody answered her for they knew that Yoh never told Aya about Anna and nobody bothered to tell her for they all knew that Anna was never coming back so what was the use of making Aya worry about a fiancé that wasn't there anymore. Hao just looked at Yoh while Tamao and Horohoro looked to the floor. Pilica's eyes were on Aya who saw the effects her question had on the whole group. Yoh's face looked guilty, as if thinking that he should have told Aya about Anna a long time ago. Pilica and Tamao were also feeling guilty for Aya was one of their friends and they should have told Aya about Anna too. Hao and Horohoro were thinking that Yoh is in deep trouble and he's never gonna get himself out of it. Before Aya asked again, the doors swung open and Yoh was saved. In walked Ren, Jun, Lyserg and Jeanne.
"Well hello gang. We meet again, don't we?" asked Jun who had four huge suitcases with her and was wearing the latest fashion.
"Why so gloom in here?" asked Jeanne who recognized the gloomy atmosphere of the room.
Nobody answered her and then Hao shouted, "Guess what everybody, Anna's back!" screamed Hao who was tired of this whole Anna's back, and dazed expressions with shouts.
Jeanne and Lyserg laughed thinking that it was a joke Hao made but stopped shortly after realizing that nobody else was laughing. So Anna is back. Jun and Ren were also stunned. No way is Anna back. That's not possible. She was gone for so long and now, suddenly, she was back. This made no sense at all.
"Yeah, Hao's right. She was here a few hours ago," said Tamao who now seemed to have recovered, "I think I'll go into the kitchen and see how the cooking is coming, you know, see if Ryu needs any help."
"Yeah I'll come too," said Pilica who saw that Yoh needed to tell Aya something. When Horohoro didn't move and kept staring at Yoh, Pilica added in a very stern voice, "And you too Horohoro."
Horohoro didn't catch on but when Pilica gave him the evil eye, he followed her out of the room.
"Yeah, um, I have to unpack so um I'll be down by dinner," said Hao, following Pilica's example and walked up the stairs.
"Me too," said Jun, Ren, Lyserg and Jeanne together, wanting to give the couple so privacy. They all walked out of the room and closed the door behind them. Now, Aya and Yoh were along.
Aya didn't say anything so Yoh sat down on the couch and sorted through of what he was going to say to Aya.
"Aya, are you okay?" asked Yoh when he saw her shivering. He walked up to her and put his arms around her. She let him do that and steer her to the couch where she sat. Yoh sat next to her. Aya placed her head gently on Yoh's chest and heard his heart thumping.
"Are things going to change between us, Yoh?" asked Aya when she stopped crying.
"No of course not," Yoh tried to assure her, but he didn't even believe the lie himself.
"Who is she? This Anna person?"
Yoh didn't know what to tell Aya. If he told her the truth, it'll hurt her feelings that he didn't tell her before, but if he lied, she'll find out sooner or later and then she'll be more hurt that he didn't tell her and that he lied. Finally, Yoh agreed to the truth.
"Anna is a friend of mine. We known each other since we were kids. She was an orphan founded by my grandmother and since then on, Anna studied under my grandmother to be an Itako while I studied with my grandfather to be a shaman. I rarely saw her during my and her training, but whenever I met her, I remembered that it always ended in tears," with this, Aya chuckled a little and Yoh was glad. Not as glad as when Anna smiles at him, but glad nevertheless, "Well anyways, I came here to study for a shaman king and well I think my grandparents sent her or she came by herself to help me train to be shaman king. She thought I was a slacker and-"
"A slacker? You? That is not possible. You run laps and do pushups everyday," said Aya, clearly surprised that Yoh ever slacked off.
"Well that was different. Anna was the one who actually drilled it into me to train every single day, even after I became shaman king. Anyways, she came here to keep me from slacking off because I really did and never trained. So Anna was a hard trainer as you can imagine. It was more like boot camp from hell than actual training. I ran laps and did pushups and speeded up my integration time. Her training really helped although I didn't realize it at the time. She made me do all the housework along with training. I was more than happy to get back to school after that. She was a great help for me when I was becoming shaman king and without her, I would have probably not been shaman king and probably be dead right now. Of course, all my friends know her so as you can see, she was kind of a big deal."
"So where was she when I was here? What happened to her after the shaman tournament?" asked Aya questionly. She now knew who this Anna was but knew that there was something extra Yoh wasn't telling her. Why did everybody in the room looked at Yoh when Anna was brought up or why didn't she hear anybody say her name in front of Yoh if she was just a friend? Aya knew she heard the name before. She remembered Pilica talking about Anna with Tamao the first time she met Yoh. They did it in hushed voices so Yoh didn't hear, but Aya did. Aya didn't know who this Anna was and thought she was probably just a servant who did something wrong and the girls were gossiping about her. Aya never thought about it until today.
Yoh now looked really uncomfortable, and Aya almost regretted asking but this was the time to find out more about Yoh's past which they almost never discussed.
"Well after the shaman tournament, we lived peacefully for a few months and then she suddenly vanished, without a trace. All her clothes were gone and everything she had was gone, except for a little paper that wrote goodbye on it left in her room. At first, everybody thought she had been kidnapped, but then we realized that she just left for if she was kidnapped, there would be some ransom note or something, instead of a goodbye written in her handwriting on the paper I got her for her birthday. And it's been four years since she left."
"Then what was the whole inn thing about?"
"Well we use to live in a creaky old inn before we moved here. I mean I lived in it with Anna and Amidamaru and ghos-"
"Wait, you lived in there along with her?" asked Aya now, taking her head off Yoh's chest and staring into his eyes.
"Well no, I mean we lived with the ghosts and Amidamaru."
"Well besides the ghosts, you lived in there with her along?" asked Aya now with a pissed voice.
"Yeah but nothing happened if that's what you mean. No, Anna won't even let me shake her hand or hug her let along you know. Anyways if I ever touched her, even to get her attention, she would slap me silly."
"Oh," said Aya and then she rested her head on his chest again. Aya knew what Yoh said was true for he never lied through his eyes and can never tell a really good lie for he was just too nice so when Aya looked in his eyes, she knew he was telling the truth.
"So now she wants to buy it?" asked Aya.
"Yeah, she probably wants to make it into an actual inn. She wanted to do that ever since we moved in. She loved the place and thought that with a few fixing up and Ryu and Tamao as the chef, she could make a really nice inn. She thought that I would be the clerk and Jeanne and Pilica the waitresses while Ren and Lyserg fixed up the place or something. She thought it would be a nice place run by all of us. I guess now, she wants to buy it," said Yoh, thinking of the good time they had when Yoh teased Anna about what a horrible old place this is and about people screaming when they see a ghost in the bathroom. Of course, only few people see ghosts, but Yoh ignored that fact. He remembered that on that occasion, Anna actually smiled at him with a huge grin and then told him that at least she would have him to torture. Yoh thought she was also teasing, but you never knew with Anna, which was one of the best things about her. Whether she was going to surprise you with a friendly smile or a painful slap, which Yoh personally have experienced both, although the latter he was more familiar with.
"But there is something else to your relationship right? I mean you wouldn't look like that when she first came in if she was just a friend right? I mean I saw Hao and Tamao look at Anna and you when they saw her and when Pilica and Jun and Ren heard Anna, they all looked at you. Isn't she their friend as much as yours too, so why look only at you?" asked Aya getting to her main question.
Yoh swallowed. This was the question he has been dreading. The one that he didn't want to tell Aya. Well he can't keep it from her any longer. Although Aya is not as scary as Anna when she's upset, Yoh still didn't want to hurt her feelings. She's been more than a girlfriend; she's been a really nice friend.
"Well Anna, she's um more than a friend. She's my………" which caused Aya to get up and look at Yoh.
"-fiancé."
BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBOkay, so is that long enough? Anyways, it does sound all mushy and everything, especially with Aya and Yoh and I bet you are asking why is there so much fluff and stuff between Aya and Yoh when this is about Anna and Yoh? Well I'm working up to that so u'll just have to wait and see. Please please review!!!!!!!!!!!! Begging u here on my hands and knees, well as best as I can in a chair. Just review and email me about whether my next fic should be a book or another anime or some tv show. Give suggestions please.